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colwort

colwort is the obsolete spelling of colewort.

Meaning of colewort

Noun

colewort (usually uncountable, plural coleworts)

  1. (usually) A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head and used for food, such as kale.
    • Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline , Cold lettuce , and refreshing rosmarine1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    cole

Forms of colwort

pluralcolworts

Questions about colwort

What is colwort the obsolete spelling of?
Colwort is the obsolete spelling of colewort.

Words near colwort in the dictionary

  1. Colwick
  2. Colwicks
  3. Colwill
  4. Colwin
  5. Colwins
  6. colwort
  7. colworts
  8. Colwyn Bay
  9. coly
  10. colydiid
  11. colydiids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colwort (page history and authors); colewort (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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